Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Consumers are actively looking for and want to engage with most businesses that fall into the following categories. 3: Large Brands – Bigger brands have two things that smaller companies don’t: an already built community, and money. Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. What amazes me is that Andrew, with no idea of where this was headed, took the initiative to build an extremely successful community. They’re Quizlet’s biggest asset.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Engagement in a process called brand evangelism is one beneficial strategy to get your brand known and to help spread your message. The easiest way to find these people is to find the communities that your users frequently visit, be it forums, Twitter, or other social networks. Spotting your brand ambassadors should not be too tricky.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. If you’re considering social media marketing for your business, no matter what size your company is, listening and engagement is key. Reply Louis Halpern December 1, 2009 at 6:17 am Brands should engage with their audience.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly In general, there are no visible calls to action to engage with social channels and little if any interactive assets. Ever watch HGTV’s Designed to Sell?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

link] Reply Rubab July 28, 2009 at 11:13 pm Me and my fiance met on Internet in May and got engaged in June and hopefully will get marry in Nov. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Sections To Read Home Main Page Community - Social Media Network Online Who will benefit from this blog? Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Blogging communities as the Open Diary, LiveJournal, Xanga. Microblogs e.g. Twitter. Hi Folks, do you work as an Online Community Manager?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

By engaging the wedding party and having them dance down the aisle spontaneously, people watching the resultant video really felt the momentum. Genuine You don’t always have to engage in expensive video production to promote your wares, nor as the marketer do you have to create the video yourself. They got excited. They laughed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

For example, Tamar Weinberg is the community manager for Mashable, and she has written for Lifehacker.com and other mega blogs. Join other communities When you’re first starting off, or even if you already have a large platform, you should participate in communities that already exist. Thanks for sharing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Seek out communities that address the needs that your company also addresses. Let the community know who you are. Introduce yourself, engage in the community, and let them learn about your brand. Those who engage in social media have an inherent thirst for interesting information. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

But over the past few months, the Facebook community has become a huge success and is continuing to flourish, and my classmates are slowly beginning to join the network. According to Baloun, Mark Zuckerberg is passionate about his product and wants to play a key role in cultivating that community without losing the control.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I’ve seen internet marketers who sell products designed to help accounts gain hundreds of followers, which defeats the process of engaging an audience with outstanding content. Reply Nan Ross September 26, 2010 at 9:08 pm Some focus too much on their following to followers ratio that they lose the engaging concept of Twitter.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But while you’re likely part of the small group of professionals who understand that the rules of engagement do not change when we cross over to the virtual world, there’s an ocean of people who easily think that access to an email address or a “send message&# form is an opportunity. Hopefully someone can shed some light.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Since most people who want to connect with me on Facebook know me in a more professional capacity, I will be using my Facebook page to engage them professionally. (As So many people use LinkedIn this way; I’d be surprised if less than 90% of LinkedIn’s community didn’t. Would you really comment on those updates?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you are going down the free route, use Google Blog Search, Technorati, and blogrolls to find relevant blogs. BuzzStream is a brilliant new tool that lets you gather contact names and addresses and chart your history of communications with each individual blogger. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to grab the code you need for your post or site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Most importantly, it seems like their engagement plan of action is totally haphazard and that they’re participating in shiny toy syndrome. As domain names and web hosting got cheaper and cheaper, it was easy for individuals to build communities that they loved and that would help like-minded folks meet each other.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

In other words, I can check someone’s Friendfeed page and get any information I want about them, including when they are actively engaged in social media activities and how much of a priority social media is to them in their online habits and information consumption. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

My uncle knows a young girl from his community, a recent college graduate, who is looking for a social media job. Unfortunately, there may occasionally be times when one’s significant other has difficulty appreciating his/her partner’s engagement online. When she found out I was his niece, she became ecstatic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

There was no engagement and his ratio of followers to following was close to one-to-one. But that was a few months ago, and I’m naive enough to think that others won’t be so silly in their online engagement activities. The success of a social media marketing campaign strongly revolves around engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Often, the turning point for me on FF is when I post something and there’s no engagement, thereby reinforcing the thought that FriendFeed is a self-serving (good for FF, bad for us) platform that doesn’t ever benefit the content creator. They don’t care about really engaging with the content. And why only 4?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Social media is about building relationships and so many “experts&# are not great communicators. Love your book “The New Community Rules&# girl! Therefore, the only combination of the two that would appear to work is to practice sharing on the web and as Tamar suggests – engage. I take it everywhere I go!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community. If you’re constantly broadcasting and not building bridges, your social media engagement will only travel so far. It is an open community of creative and passionate people.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. See if the individuals behind the account are engaging their followers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. Better yet, having multiple employees at your company engage in Twitter can also help further your company goals. There are a few obstacles you will face if you engage in this tactic, but they’re nothing too difficult to address.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. Until then, there will be users who take but can’t give back to the community. Still stuck?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

But before I engaged in so many social media spheres, I certainly wasn’t as well-rounded as I was prior to my participation. BTW – I’ve really been interacting with the Digg community more and more. It really is about being a part of the community. I would say that you need to find out what works for you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). I get fixated on one community and ditch the last, yet I still have my profiles on them and they usually get outdated within minutes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. Reaching out to bloggers and online communities, it hit both the NY Times and Wall Street Journal in the first week of publication.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner actually lets you schedule different Twitter backgrounds, bios, and profiles, so that you can see which profile types might get the most engagement. For a big company account, it’s difficult to actually engage all day long (and all week long, especially if you’re a 9-5 shop). Profile design rotator.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Since FriendFeed aggregates numerous social networks, it can give you a lot more information about its users, especially with regards to how and when they engage with online content. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way. You never know until you check out their feed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Logic says that the more pages a user views, the higher their level of engagement with the site. page views While a parity in page views exists between social networks for Online Marketing Banter, both SEO ROI and Van SEO Design experience higher engagement levels from Sphinn members. page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

So instead of sticking your fingers in your ears and ignoring it (at your own peril), better to engage with those people and make them feel “felt&# and heard. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Back then, companies who were engaged were genuinely involved because they wanted to build strong valuable relationships. Sometimes, people eventually get sick of constantly engaging and constantly trying their best to put on a happy face. However, to some, social media is a fleeting trend. He’s not alone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The most popular blogs, according to Technorati , maintain that consistency by posting more than once a day. By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Want another tip on how to write well? Read a lot. Then you won’t get covered.

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